About me: Yelena Shabrova, an artist and web designer who lives and works in Silicon Valley, Ca. See more of my art at shabrova.com or visit duskowl.com for everything that has to do with graphic design and web development.
This arrived in my feedreader after the show was over, but what a great review. That the first image in the article is of Iggy Pop is an icing on the cake.
Robert Mapplethorpe – Iggy Pop, 1981 Gelatin-silver print 14″ x 17 5/8″
The show itself was wonderful.
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San Jose Museum of Art still have two short videos on their web site about Robert Mapplethorne and his portraits in case you missed the show.
Russian Ridge View and Summer Day in Santa Cruz Mountains were accepted into the juried exhibition at the Pacific Art League. The juror is Kenny Harris.
Commemorating PAL’s 90th anniversary, the exhibition “Ode to California” is about the historic transformation of the state, its people, place and culture.
Pacific Art League is located at 668 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301-2545.
The exhibit is open July 1 – 28, 2011.
You are invited to the reception which is on July 1, 5:30 pm – 8 pm.
Russian Ridge View – colored pencil on colored paper, 9″ x 6″
Summer Day in Santa Cruz Mountains – colored pencil on watercolor paper, 14.5″ x 10.5″
It’s been a while since I visited the Triton Museum of Art, and yesterday we went there just because, not to see anything in particular. Was I ever glad we stopped by!
Mirang Wonne is having a very impressive exhibition there – large pieces of stainless steel mesh into which flowers, trees, and oceanic plants are burned with a blow-torch. Some are hanging from the ceiling, some are placed on the walls overlaying acrylic paintings like a dream veil.
Mirang’s work is not something that translates well into photography, and this may explain why I glazed over her page on the Triton’s web site. You need to walk past or around her creations to see how the mesh shimmers, how hanging layers overlap as you go around them and create new and ever more exciting patterns of torched lines.
There is even a small piece of torched mesh on the staff’s counter that you can touch and see for yourself how different the feel is from the look. Gentle and dream-like turns out to be cold and unmistakably metal.
Capturing Sunlight 7386 – torched (burnt) stainless steel mesh with acrylic painting on paper underneath, framed, 55″x 42″
One of my drawings, “Running Free,” was selected for a juried exhibition at the Pacific Art League. It is called “Fur, Feathers & Fins.”
The exhibition is open from June 3, 2011 till June 23, 2011.
Pacific Art League is located at 668 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301-2545.
I will be at the reception during the Palo Alto First Friday Art Walk. It’s on June 3, 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Running Free – pastel pencil on colored paper, 12″ x 9″
I will be showing during all three weekends of SVOS at the following locations:
Weekend 1
May 7 – 8, Site 539
Graniterock Design Center
1505 So. De Anza Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014
See the map
Weekend 2
May 14 – 15, Site 501
Fongwei Liu Studios
3754 Pruneridge Ave , Santa Clara, CA 95051
See the map
Weekend 3
May 21 – 22, Site 481
Carolina Mueller Studio
10823 Wilkinson Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014
See the map
All sites are open 11 am till 5 pm.
Join me and other artists for three weekends of art and fun. Come to chat, enjoy refreshments, and see the newest original art, prints, cards, and gift items.
My page at SVOS.org:
http://svos.org/artist.php?id=1907
There is a wonderful exhibition in the Main Gallery of the Pacific Art League this month – Hau Pei-Jen: Fifty Year Retrospective. Mr. Hau is an instructor at PAL and a well-known innovator in the “splash ink and color” tradition in Chinese painting. His art combines traditional Chinese painting and modern Western techniques, it’s almost abstract sometimes and very captivating.
Hau Pei-Jen Rhythm of the Mountain ink and watercolor on paper, 18″ x 21″
Paul Pei-Jen Hau is the founder of the American Society for the Advancement of Chinese Arts that is having a diverse group show in the Norton Gallery upstairs.
Yesterday KALEID celebrated the 4th year of it’s very temporary existence on the 4th Street in San Jose. I think we had fewer people than last year, but the party was very nice nonetheless. I didn’t see most of the artists since last December, and talking to them again was a real pleasure. Funny how we forget names but remember each others’ faces :)
Since we came early, I could take a good look at the Rockin’ Stockings art show. Each artist’s works were hung together, and stockings with artist names were painted on the wall under them. Very cute :)
Also, found an artist I don’t think I saw before: Megan M. Eckman of Studio M.M.E.. She has wonderful pen and ink illustrations in KALEID. There was another artist whose work looks like illustrations, all with unusual perspectives, but there was no name anywhere on the display. I know that there was an article about her (or him?) some time ago in the Phantom Galleries blog, but of course now I can’t find it. Why, oh why do artists make it difficult to locate their name?
The best part of the evening was of course the gift exchange. All gifts were unwrapped on the spot, so that we all could see what it was and who created each piece.
I finally ventured into the land of collages with my gift, but since I could not find about half of the paper I knew I had, the result was not exactly what I originally planned. Not sure if the original idea would survive anyway since paper was not tearing predictably and there was no telling up front how a particular type of paper would take colored pencil.
It was fun working on the collage anyway, and Keith Bunnell seemed to be happy with it. Keith is a Raku artist whose beautifully shaped and glazed mug I picked earlier that evening from under the Christmas tree.
Gift exchange is a random process, and Cherry even shuffled the gifts to make sure no one could tell which gift was brought by which artist. Keith and me were the only two who picked each others’ creations.
Flashes of memories – torn paper collage, 5″ x 7″
Raku mug by Keith Bunnell. You can’t tell it from the photo, but the mug is just as beautiful inside with random spots of black and dark earthy colors.
6 of my small originals are a part of the Rockin’ Stockings Show & Sale at the KALEID gallery. All of them are matted, framed, and carry special pricing for the gift giving season:
The show opens on the First Friday, December 3rd, 7pm-9pm and continues through December 30th.
All art can be taken home at the point of sale.
KALEID Gallery
88 South Fourth St. (at San Fernando)
Downtown San Jose
www.KALEIDGallery.com
The full list of participating artists:
Murphy Adams
Shannon Amidon
Tere Barbella
Mariana Barnes
Jessica Beerli
Christine Benjamin
Sandra Billingsley
Mike Borja
Lacey Bryant
Keith Bunnell
Tessa Cavazos
Jean Davis
Joe Decker
Emo
Cari Ferraro
Michael Foley
Katie Gutierrez
John Kurtyka
Rene Lorraine
Joshua Marcotte
David Mejia
Woody Miller
Mariya Milovidova
Gianfranco Paolozzi
John Paulson
Al Preciado
Blaise Rosenthal
Valerie Runningwolf
Kurtis Rykovich
San Jose Glass Artist Alliance
Centa Schumacher
Nora Schwaller
Yelena Shabrova
Kate Stewart
Subtotal
Sara Tomasello
Dorothy Whitman
Kathleen Wolf
Jeanne Yee
Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild held a show and sale, Art in Clay, this weekend at the Lucie Stern Community Center, Palo Alto. So many talented artists were showing their wares there!
Henriette Cons Ponte – Pomegranate
I made changes to my display at the KALEID gallery.
There are five smaller pieces on display now, three of them are at KALEID for the first time – Outburst, Fortitude, and Scinthia:
You will also see more miniature canvases and small matted original artworks.
The holidays are nearly here! To celebrate them, KALEID will hold a special show and sale that will open First Friday on December 3rd, 2010, 7pm – 10pm, and will be part of the First Fridays art walk.
Please see the KALEID web site for regular hours for the rest of the show and sale.
I am working on several 5″ x 7″ pieces for the show and will post pictures soon.
Trying out Stabilo Carbothello pastel pencils and a new fixative to protect the drawings. So far Stabilo Carbothello have been a pleasure to draw with, they are almost as soft as nu pastel sticks, but not nearly as messy as pastels.
Visit my gallery at shabrova.com to see original artwors, very affordable prints, and greetign cards
